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July 1, 2022

Kinzinger: "This debate really was filled with a bunch of arm-pit farters (besides) Liz Cheney"

https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1542869181716201472

This debate really was filled with a bunch of arm-pit farters and then there was Liz Cheney, the only serious person up there.


Ok, Kinzinger might be a conservative Republican and a past MAGA supporter, but that was a funny line about the Wyoming Republican primary.
June 25, 2022

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois (TrumParty): " Hitler was right on one thing "

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1540759759980298240

I mean, WTF, why use Hitler for ANYTHING except as an example of horrible things ?

https://marymiller.house.gov/

15th CD of IL, Effingham largest city
June 25, 2022

Question about Senator Cornyn, his recent tweet about Brown v. Board of Education and electability..

I am not trolling here. Those of you who know me, know I've been here a very long time. A sincere question:

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1540689961040482306

Can Cornyn survive after that tweet ? Or is his re-election so far away that people might forget ? Or is he retiring ? Thanks in advance.



Steve


eta: His attempt to clarify... why didn't he just spell it all out in the very first tweet ? #ownthelibs I guess

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1540763079520096256

June 17, 2022

Adam Kinzinger, on the J6 Committee: Why so quiet so far ?

Maybe this has been asked already. I did a search, found nothing.

Why has Kinzinger been so quiet so far ? If he has spoken, I have missed it.

I've been fine with Liz Cheney using her abilities to savage Trump and his minions. Maybe Kinzinger will speak later ? We've heard from Zoe Lofgren and Pete Aguilar on the Democratic side (and maybe others I have missed).

Unless someone has other facts, I am guessing Kinzinger will speak later ?

May 5, 2022

Member of the JOINT CHIEFS researched the 25th Amendment for removing a president from office.....

Member of the JOINT CHIEFS researched the 25th Amendment for removing a president from office after red-faced Trump's 'twenty-minute tirade' about Afghanistan, former Defense chief Mark Esper writes in new book

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10787309/Member-JOINT-CHIEFS-researched-25th-Amendment-Trump.html

One of the nation's top military officers was so concerned about former President Donald Trump's red-faced 'tirade' about Afghanistan that he began researching the 25th Amendment on removing a president from office, former Pentagon boss Mark Esper writes in his new book.

The development came after Trump made the 'stupid' decision to make false and 'baseless' claims about the military in front of the top assembled military chiefs during a White House meeting.

It was a performance Esper termed 'reprehensible,' and prompted side conversations among the military brass.

Esper wasn't the only person present who was gobsmacked.




eta: I damn sure am not buying his f*******g book. I'm quite confident he could have done something productive WHILE he was in office, greedy a******le.
May 5, 2022

Very brave woman protests in Yekaterinburg, Russia against the war, sews her mouth shut

https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1521930133170438149

Nadezhda Sayfutdinova was detained in Yekaterinburg in Russia after she sewed her mouth shut with needle and thread and went out into the street with a poster against a war.


I hope she gets out of jail soon, so courageous.

ETA:

"YOU CAN'T!!! BE SILENT!!!
YOU CAN'T BE SILENT!

Super price
-> Conscience <

War - is NOT peace!!!
Freedom - is NOT slavery!!!
Ignorance - is NOT power!!!
Those are your braces!
(spiritual braces is the term for the Russian orthodoxy conservative mindset)"
May 5, 2022

Russia taunts Finland by flying a military helicopter INTO its airspace as the Nordic country....

Russia taunts Finland by flying a military helicopter INTO its airspace as the Nordic country prepares to join NATO to the Kremlin’s fury

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10782761/Russia-taunts-Finland-flying-military-helicopter-airspace-country-plans-NATO-entry.html (one of only two news sources so far in English)

A Russian army helicopter violated Finland's airspace in an apparent attempt to frighten the country as it readies to join NATO.

The military Mi-17 transport chopper flew 2-3 miles inside the Finnish border after 10.30 this morning (7.30am GMT), according to the country's Ministry of Defence.

'The aircraft type is a Mi-17 helicopter and the depth of the suspected violation is about four to five kilometres', a ministry spokesman told AFP.

snip

Russia previously violated Finnish airspace on April 8, the first time this year.





eta: https://yle.fi/news/3-12430400 here also
May 4, 2022

Kayleigh McEnany now refuses to go to Walt Disney World

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1521816069383540736

Kayleigh McEnany says her daughter loves Disney, wears Minnie Mouse pajamas, and she really wants to go to Disney World, but she “can’t in good faith” take her there after their confrontation with Desantis.


eta: I forgot her daughter loves Disney. So, yes, she is selfishly penalizing her daughter.

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